The general consensus? They might let you down easy, but if you don’t pass muster, they’ll let you down nonetheless.

According to Tyler,

“I have the passion and the heart, and I’m going to love them to death. So I can say, ‘You’re going to Hollywood,’ but also you gotta tell them, ‘Don’t hate me for what I say, don’t get mad, get better.’ I will send them home with a broken heart, I’m going to be honest and truthful and open as best I can…and tongue in cheek.”

Lopez, meanwhile, reckons that she’ll have some level of artistic sympathy for the would-be singing stars, but when constructive criticism is called for, she won’t be afraid to dole it out:

“I think innately you can’t help but want to give them tough love in a sense. I don’t think I can ever be cruel to another artist because I am an artist, and I know what its like to put yourself out there, be in front of people, and say, ‘Hey do you like me?’ [I'm always going to judge] with a lot of love and caring and a lot of nurturing and honesty.”

So how can contestants stay closer to the “love” side of the “tough love” equation? Iovine, honcho of Interscope Records, cautions that they’ll be looking for singers who put their own spin on their selected material:

“[We're looking for] 100% originality. We don’t need someone who loves Mariah Carey and therefore is going to channel her. We need that influence but we want that person to be themselves and be original and do the work. We don’t want karaoke.”

So what do other ‘Idol’ alum think? For his part, ‘Idol’ runner-up Adam Lambert says he loves the new blood in the judge’s chair.

Do you think the new approach will be an improvement to the show? Share your predictions in the comments section.

Hopefully this season they will Honor what they are asking for “Originality”. There were two artist last season that got alot of negative feedback from the judges for taking songs assigned and making it their own, Hopefully this season they will mean what the say and I think Steven Tyler and Jennifer Lopez will do a great job.

noah

Howard Stern should have been a new Idol judge. He would have been 100 times better than these hacks.

Just think, if a chick was terrible, he would throw bologna slices at her butt. Now that’s pure entertainment.

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